The Pantheon is a neo-classical monument located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. In the heart of the Latin Quarter, on the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, it is in the center of the Panthéon Square and surrounded by the town hall of the 5th arrondissement, Henri IV school, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church, the Sainte-Geneviève Library and the Faculty of Law. The Rue Soufflot draws him a perspective to the Luxembourg garden.
The name of the monument, Pantheon, comes from the Greek pántheion (πάνθειον), which means "temple to all the gods". Originally planned in the 18th century to be a church that would house the shrine of Saint Genevieve, this monument now has the vocation of honoring great characters who have marked the history of France, except for the military careers normally devoted to the military pantheon of Invalides. In particular, the following are buried: Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Louis Braille, Sadi Carnot, Émile Zola, Jean Jaurès, Jean Moulin, Jean-Pierre Monnet, André Malraux and Alexandre Dumas in 2002. Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Jean Zay and Pierre Brossolette will be entering on May 27, 2015. The next person to enter is Simone Veil in 2017, accompanied by her husband Antoine Veil.

The pendulum of Foucault is associated with the history of the Pantheon of Paris. When, in 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault was looking for a high-rise building to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, the Pantheon, a civilian site, seemed perfectly appropriate. 1902 marked another stage, both scientific and political, of an affirmation of the scientific spirit free from all religious influence. Since 1995, the pendulum beats again in the nave, attached to the 67 meters high cupola of the Pantheon in Paris.

Louis Braille, born January 4, 1809 in Coupvray, Seine-et-Marne, and died January 6, 1852, is the French inventor of the tactile writing system with high points, for the use of blind or visually impaired people : braille. He will open the doors of the knowledge to the blind people.